Brace back epic lo 627 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$537.66
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,465.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$302.67 with Care 1st vs $1,465.00 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $302.67 | ↓ -44% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $366.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $366.25 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $399.52 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $483.45 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $483.45 | ↓ -10% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $586.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $586.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $688.55 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $703.20 | ↑ +31% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $732.50 | ↑ +36% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $747.15 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $761.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $835.05 | ↑ +55% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $849.70 | ↑ +58% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $849.70 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $966.90 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $966.90 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,025.50 | ↑ +91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,084.10 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,084.10 | ↑ +102% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,113.40 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,157.35 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,172.00 | ↑ +118% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,318.50 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,362.45 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,362.45 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,421.05 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,465.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Brace back epic lo 627 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $543.52 | $302.67 – $1,318.50 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $344.57 | $302.67 – $1,172.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,262.70 | $389.52 – $1,590.54 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $301.79 | $134.78 – $562.56 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $676.34 | $293.48 – $1,334.00 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $779.06 | $280.14 – $1,307.32 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | not published | $140.66 – $260.22 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | not published | $140.66 – $260.22 |